The Modal Decomposition of the Quality Factor of an Antenna in Prolate Spheroidal Coordinates

Abstract

This report discusses extending the results for prolate spheroids by including higher order modes and finding the sum of modes giving the minimum radiation Q. There is no coupling between odd and even modes, but there is coupling between the lowest order even modes. The report also presents a simple result for the values of the degree of mixing of modes 2, 4, and 6 that minimizes Q(sub r).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA487968

Entities

People

  • P. M. Hansen
  • R. C. Adams

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antennas
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Department Of Defense
  • Eigenvalues
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrically Small Antennas
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Governments
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Power Series
  • Radiation
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering